acarsd

acarsd is an ACARS decoder for Linux and Windows. ACARS stands for Communications Addressing and Reporting System. acarsd tries to decode ACARS transmissions from aircraft. Some features include the type of aircraft, flight, and operator.

Recent releases

Release Notes: Fast acarsd.db indexing with low memory usage was
implemented for web and acarsd server. Flight
resolution from Flytecomm.com was added.
Resolution from Air Berlin was moved into acarsd.
A high speed translation table was added. A new
XML creator and parser is included. An automatic
fleet list upload was added. Older records are
automatically deleted. The Nick Birell Aircraft
list and translation.csv are automatically
downloaded and installed once a week. Up to 4
soundcards and 8 airband scanners are supported.
The WACARS style message extension file
"MESSAGE.WDF" is supported.

Release Notes: In this release, the database handling has been changed, a
plugin engine was added to the acarsdgui, some minor bugs
were fixed, the FleetList handling was rewritten, there are
now flight excludes, there are realtime flight reports, the
translation table was enhanced, and a traffic shaper for
acarsd server systems is included.

Release Notes: This release can handle up to 6 Airband Scanners on 3 sound
cards (two scanner per sound card). A new translation table
that supports wildcards such as * and ? was included along
with automatic database lookup, a different image server,
faster caching, fleet lists, chat, database synchronization, and
many other new or enhanced features

Release Notes: This release can decode data from up to 3 soundcards. It displays a picture of the aircraft after every successful transmission (provided the picture is in the database). It has full FCB/CRC checking, an alternative ACARS display mode (table mode) including exporting as .csv or .tsv, user-defined message filtering, a user-defined map to show aircraft positions, database searching (flight, reg, departure airport, arrival airport, and time), and more.

Release Notes: This release can decode all pieces of ACARS messages. The server mode is improved and has been tested for over 2 months. Extended databases are included. There are two different log files, including PDF documentation, and much more.